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Child survival is a field of public health concerned with reducing child mortality. Child survival interventions are designed to address the most common causes of child deaths that occur, which include diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, and neonatal conditions. Out of the number of children under the age of 5 alone, an estimated 5.6 million children ...
Candida albicans infection; Candida parapsilosis infection; Cytomegalovirus infection; diphtheria; human coronavirus infection; respiratory distress syndrome; measles; meconium aspiration syndrome
One method to improve population health is through population health management (PHM), which has been defined as "the technical field of endeavor which utilizes a variety of individual, organizational and cultural interventions to help improve the morbidity patterns (i.e., the illness and injury burden) and the health care use behavior of ...
More than 25 million people lost coverage during the “unwinding” of Medicaid— the majority for procedural reasons like paperwork issues, according to the health policy research group KFF.
For example, studies done after Hurricane Katrina hit the United States Gulf Coast showed that children affected by the hurricane have found high rates of depression, anxiety, behavioral problems and post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). [48] 7. Precipitation extremes
When adjusted for age, the death rate of Native Americans and Alaska Natives is 40% higher than the general population, and 39% of the children are obese or overweight. [26] Mental health is the number one problem in the Native American and Alaska Native population. [26]
Some research argues that to end the high infant mortality rate of black children, the country needs to fix the social and societal issues that plague African Americans, [167] such as institutional racism, mass incarceration, poverty, and health care disparities that are present amongst the African American population. Following this theory, if ...
Adolescent health, or youth health, is the range of approaches to preventing, detecting or treating young people's health and well-being. [ 1 ] The term adolescent and young people are often used interchangeably, as are the terms Adolescent Health [ 2 ] and Youth Health.